Phys. Rev. A 54, 5410–5414 (1996)Fock-state preparation from thermal cavity fields by measurements on resonant atomsReceived 2 July 1996; published in the issue dated December 1996 We show that by combining nonselective and conditional measurements on a sequence of excited two-level atoms traversing a resonant cavity, one can construct a practical strategy for compressing an arbitrary photon-number distribution (thermal distributions included) into a desired Fock state with high probability of success and low number of measurements. © 1996 The American Physical Society. © 1996 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.54.5410
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.54.5410
PACS:
42.50.Dv, 32.80.-t
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